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As lattice analogs of fractional quantum Hall systems, fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) exhibit enigmatic physical properties resulting from the intricate interplay between single-body and many-body physics. In particular, the design of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-31 Ching Hua Lee , Martin Claassen , Ronny Thomale

We study two models for spinless fermions featuring topologically non-trivial bands characterized by Chern numbers $C=\pm1$ at fractional filling. Using exact diagonalization, we show that, even for infinitely strong nearest-neighbor…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-04-02 Stefanos Kourtis , Titus Neupert , Claudio Chamon , Christopher Mudry

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in moire materials present a unique platform for exploring strongly correlated topological phases beyond the paradigm of ideal quantum geometry. While analytical approaches to FCIs and fractional quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-06 Ang-Kun Wu , Louis Primeau , Jingtao Zhang , Kai Sun , Yang Zhang , Shi-Zeng Lin

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) typically emerge in topological flat bands and are regarded as lattice analogs of fractional quantum Hall states. Conventionally, the flat-band wavefunctions that support FCIs are expected to mimic the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Moru Song , Kai Chang

Fractional Chern insulators (FCI) are exotic phases of matter realized at partial filling of a Chern band that host fractionally charged anyon excitations. Recent numerical studies in several microscopic models reveal that increasing the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-23 Zhengyan Darius Shi , T. Senthil

In this paper we construct fully symmetric wavefunctions for the spin-polarized fractional Chern insulators (FCI) and time-reversal-invariant fractional topological insulators (FTI) in two dimensions using the parton approach. We show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-04-23 Yuan-Ming Lu , Ying Ran

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs), having properties similar to those of the fractional quantum Hall effect, have been established numerically in various toy models. To fully explore their fundamental physics and to develop practical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-26 Wei Li , Zheng Liu , Yong-Shi Wu , Yan Chen

Fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) have attracted intensive attention for the realization of fractional quantum Hall states in the absence of an external magnetic field. Most of FCIs have been proposed on two-dimensional (2D) Euclidean…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-11-11 Ai-Lei He , Lu Qi , Yongjun Liu , Yi-Fei Wang

The search for candidate materials for fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) has mainly focused on the topological and geometrical structures of single-particle Chern bands. However, there are inherent limitations in approaches that neglect…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-29 Nobuyuki Okuma , Tomonari Mizoguchi

The recent experimental discovery of the zero-field fractional Chern insulator (FCI) in twisted $\mathrm{MoTe_2}$ moir\'e superlattices has sparked immense interest in this exotic topological quantum state. The FCI has also been observed in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-03 Heqiu Li , Ying Su , Yong Baek Kim , Hae-Young Kee , Kai Sun , Shi-Zeng Lin

The experimental discovery of fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in rhombohedral pentalayer graphene twisted on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has preceded theoretical prediction. Supported by large-scale first principles relaxation…

Non-Abelian (NA) fractional topological states with quasi-particles obeying NA braiding statistics have attracted intensive attentions for both its fundamental nature and the prospect for topological quantum computation. To date, there are…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-04-29 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Hong Yao , Yi-Fei Wang

Recent experiments on bilayer graphene twisted near the magic angle have observed spontaneous integer quantum Hall states in the presence of an aligned hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) substrate. These states arise from valley ferromagnetism,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-18 Patrick J. Ledwith , Grigory Tarnopolsky , Eslam Khalaf , Ashvin Vishwanath

The discovery of zero-field fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) in moir\'e materials has attracted intense interest in the interplay between topology and correlations. Here, we demonstrate that fractionalized topological order can emerge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Hui Liu , Raul Perea-Causin , Zhao Liu , Emil J. Bergholtz

We propose a generalized composite fermion (CF) theory for fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) by adapting the quantum mechanics approach of CFs. The theoretical framework naturally produces an effective CF Hamiltonian and a wavefunction…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-12 Hao Jin , Junren Shi

We formulate a Chern-Simons composite fermion theory for Fractional Chern Insulators (FCIs), whereby bare fermions are mapped into composite fermions coupled to a lattice Chern-Simons gauge theory. We apply this construction to a Chern…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-10 Ramanjit Sohal , Luiz H. Santos , Eduardo Fradkin

The fractional Chern insulators (FCIs) observed in pentalayer rhombohedral graphene/hexagonal boron nitride superlattices have a unique origin contrary to theoretical expectations: their non-interacting band structure is gapless, unlike…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-09-26 Jiabin Yu , Jonah Herzog-Arbeitman , Yves H. Kwan , Nicolas Regnault , B. Andrei Bernevig

The fractional quantum anomalous Hall (FQAH) states or fractional Chern insulator (FCI) states have been studied on two-dimensional (2D) flat lattices with different boundary conditions. Here, we propose the geometry-dependent FCI/FQAH…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-10 Ai-Lei He , Wei-Wei Luo , Yi-Fei Wang , Chang-De Gong

A recent experiment has reported the first observation of a zero-field fractional Chern insulator (FCI) phase in twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ moir\'e superlattices [Nature 622, 63-68 (2023)]. The experimental observation is at an unexpected…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-04-09 Chong Wang , Xiao-Wei Zhang , Xiaoyu Liu , Yuchi He , Xiaodong Xu , Ying Ran , Ting Cao , Di Xiao

A flat band with Chern number $C=0$, and well isolated from the rest of Hilbert space by a gap much larger than interaction strength, is a context that has not been regarded as relevant for fractional quantum Hall physics. In this work, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Zuzhang Lin , Hongyu Lu , Wenqi Yang , Dawei Zhai , Wang Yao